Inter Pares Film Nights - Granito: How to nail a dictator

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December 10, 2015

Time

6:30pm

Location

Inter Pares, 221 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa

For International Human Rights Day, we are thrilled to invite you to our ninth and last 2015 edition of Inter Pares Film Nights for the screening of Granito: How to nail a dictator. This documentary recounts the extraordinary story of how a 1983 film about the civil war in Guatemala helped a new generation of human rights activists tip the scales of justice in the historic genocide trial against the country’s former dictator, Efraín Rios Montt.

Film director Pamela Yates and Guillaume Charbonneau, our program manager for Central America, will be there for conversation and discussion after the film.

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The name Inter Pares means "among equals" in Latin, and reflects our belief in the equality of people, North and South. Inter Pares was founded in 1975 on a commitment to address conflict and injustice in Canada and around the world.